Cricketers due to experience the wild side of cricket at Bristol Zoo
The Gloucestershire Gladiators will be at Bristol Zoo on Sunday 6th June to promote their Friends Provident t20 games.
The club will set up a “cricket area” in the zoo, with details of all the great fixtures at the club and an area to buy tickets for the t20 games. There will be an opportunity to get autographs from some of the Gloucestershire players, in 2 separate signing sessions (11am-12.00pm and 1pm-2.30pm).
There will be a special cricket net session, where youngsters can have cricket coaching from the players and practice their skills. There will even be a chance to win junior tickets to one of the Gladiators home t20 matches.
Previous t20 promotions by the club have included Guerilla cricket but this is one step closer to the real thing! Although the players will not be let loose with the gorillas they will be face to face with some of the Zoo’s very own crickets!
Harriet Moon, GCCC Marketing Manager said, “We are really pleased to be invited to Bristol Zoo to promote t20 cricket. This is a perfect opportunity to emphasise the wild, action packed format of t20 cricket that can be enjoyed by all the family.”
Mike Kemp, corporate development manager at Bristol Zoo Gardens, said: “We are very much looking forward to welcoming The Gloucestershire Gladiators to the Zoo this weekend for a fun-filled day that is sure to be a great bonus for our Zoo visitors.”
The Gladiators play 8 home FP t20 fixtures this season, 2 at Gloucester on 11th and 13th June and then 6 games at Bristol. Tickets are great value; especially with advance family tickets (2 adults & 2 under 16s) for only £36. For all the fixtures and to purchase tickets visit www.gloscricket.co.ukor call 0117 9108010.
To find out more about Bristol Zoo Gardens and what’s on over the coming weeks, visit the website at www.bristolzoo.org.ukor phone 0117 974 7300.
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For further press enquiries please contact Stephanie Keene (PR office) on Tel: 0117 9108003 m: 07920 246055
OrLucy Parkinson, T: 0117 974 7306, or email: lparkinson@bristolzoo.org.uk
Notes to the Editor:
Bristol Zoo Gardens
- Bristol Zoo Gardens is an education and conservation charity and relies on the income from visitors to support its work.
- Throughout 2010 Bristol Zoo will be running a series of events to highlight the importance of conserving the world’s biodiversity, as part of the international Year of Biodiversity. For more information visit the Zoo website at www.bristolzoo.org.uk/about/conservation/campaigns/iyob
- To find out more about the UN’s International Year of Biodiversity visit the website at www.biodiversityislife.net
- The Zoo is involved with more than 100 co-ordinated breeding programmes for threatened wildlife species.
- Itemploys 140 full and part-time staff to care for the animals and run a successful visitor attraction to support its conservation and education work.
- Bristol Zoo Gardens supports – through finance and skill sharing - 15 projects in the UK and abroad that conserveand protectsome of the world’s most endangered species.
- Bristol Zoo Gardens is a member of the British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums. BIAZA represents more than 90 member collections and promotes the values of good zoos and aquariums.
